To piggyback on your point #4:
Trump doing this now with the so called conservative media, he takes the moral authority when he is running in the general to go after the liberal media in the same fashion. No one can say he is picking favorites.
Trump with the huge lead is playing his chips to win the whole shibang. The Cruz’s and Rubio’s are too focused on squeaking out one state to even get what Trump is doing.
Megyn Kelly was not conservative media putting trump on the spot in the first debate. That’s a dream